The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-13
The Creole Lady.

The aristocratic Creole lady is often a
model for the imitation of her sex. She is
an obedient and respectful daughter, a faith
full wife and devoted mother She is soft
OF speech and has grace of manner which
gives a charm to all she does. Well educated
and accomplished writes a New Orleans
correspondent with keen wit, she makes a
brilliant figure in society, but is, nevertheless,
an excellent manager of her household and
gives a most careful supervision to every
detail that will enhance the comfort of her
lord. She looks diligently after the physical
and intellectual welfare of her children
especially are her daughters trained under
her own eyes in all that goes to make women
lovely in mind and person. Their tasks for
school are conned by her side, there music
lessons are practiced within her hearing
that she may detect the least false note. She
| shares in all their amusements; she is their
companion, their confidant, their friend
They come to her with all their little hopes
and fears, sure of her sympathy.
When her daughter is grown the Creole
| matron blooms again into a rich second
youth; her own girlhood is renewed in that
of child they are scarcely mother daughter
any longer, but pair of loving sisters.
The young girl is educated in a convent and
leads a secluded existence until she is
launched in society, and then in the joyous
life that bursts upon her she is always
surrounded by the same watchful care that
guarded her childhood. Young girls are
not allowed to go into society without being
accompanied by their mothers or some
other married lady as chaperon-one of the
many Creole customs which has been gener-
ally adopted by the American residents of
New Orleans.
These young girls are often wonderfully
beautiful. Good features, handsome eyes
and graceful figures combine to make them
very attractive, their beauty being not infre-
quently Oriental in type, though the vivacity
of their manner marks them as essentially
French in character. Many Creole women
are very accomplished. They have a skill
in music and painting that is often artistic.
In the literary clubs which society women
have inaugurated of late years in New
Orleans, the American ladies have been
astonished to find the Creole ladies quite as
well posted as themselves in English itera-
ture, while possessing much greater
knowledge of the literature of other coun-
tries. But an accomplishment still more at
tractive to the impecunious young man seek
ing matrinlony is the exquisite taste with
which these maidens fair viii fashion their
own gowns and bonnets when circumstances
require them to make these things at home.
The Creole women have inherited their
French taste for dress, and in a greater de-
gree than other Americans they regard the
fiat of Paris as the supreme authority for
all matters concerning toilet. The Creole
women of all ages and OF all classes are
devout. Neither social engagements nor
weather nor other obstacles are allowed to
interfere with the discharge of their relig.
ious duties Are they not somewhat
superstitious? Some of them a little so per-
hapS in remembrance of voudoO stories told
them in their infancy by old negro nurses